NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1175MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP +341%

2.106 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jul 2017

GeForce 200

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1090 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

896

64

TMUs

56

28

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

45W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Polaris 21

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

65 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

3 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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